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has specimens from the Khasia Hills, taken by Mr. Hamilton's native collectors. 

 Mr. J. Wood-Mason (J. A. S. Beng. 1886, 353) records it as " common in the 

 forests around Silcuri, in Cachar, from May to August." The late Mr. Arthur 

 Grote found the larva feeding on Bamboo in the Calcutta district. Mr. W. S. Atkin- 

 son also obtained the larva in the Calcutta district, on Bamboo, living between rolled 

 up leaves, on April 23rd, 1856. Mr. L. de Niceville has taken the species " in dry 

 ditches in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, during the cold weather " (J. A. S. Beng. 

 1885, 43). Mr. J. Rothney obtained it in " Barrackpore Park, near Calcutta" 

 (Ent. Mo. Mag. 1882). Mr. Charlton Swinhoe also recently obtained it in the 

 Calcutta district. In Burma, according to Major C. ,H. B. Adamson (List, p. 11) 

 it is recorded as being common throughout the country ; both this species and 

 D. Continen talis having been caught by me early in the morning before the sun was 

 much above the horizon." Captain B. Y. "Watson (J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 1891, 

 86) obtained both sexes during the Chin-Lushai Expedition of 1889-90, at Tilin 

 Yaw, in March, April, and September." Signor Leonardo Fea obtained it at Bhamo, 

 and Dr. Manders (Tr. Ent. Soc. 1890, 519) records it as being " common in the 

 Shan States." It has been taken in Rangoon, in July and August. Mr. Ossian 

 Limborg (P. Z. S. 1878, 826) obtained it in Upper Tenasserim, at " Taoo, 3000 to 

 5000 feet ; Moolai, 3000 to 6000 feet ; and above Ahsown." Mr. H. J. Elwes 

 (J. A. S. Beng. 1887, 419) records it from Tavoy. "We possess a specimen recently 

 received from Mr. A. R. H. Tucker, taken in Tavoy in December. Mr. Distant 

 describes and figures both sexes from the Malay Peninsula, the male being entirely 

 unspotted on the upperside of the forewing (Rhop. Malayana, p. 75, pi. 7). B. 

 indica is probably only the wet-season form of D. Zal. 



Of our illustrations of this species on Plate 153, fig. 1 represents the larva and 

 pupa reproduced from Mr. A. Grote's original drawings of Calcutta specimens, and 

 figs. 1, a, b, c, d, the male and female. 



DISCOPHORA SPILOFTERA (Plate 154, figs. 1, la, (J ? ). 

 Discophora spiloptera, de Niceville, trans. Ent. Soc. 1888, p. 331. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dusky ochreous-brown ; cilia ochreous. Forewing 

 crossed by an erect discal, and two erect submarginal rows of rich ochreous spots, 

 the discal row being small and longitudinally slender, the ordinary spot between the 

 upper median and radial being obsolescent, and the upper one ochreous- white ; the 

 middle row composed of large wedge-shaped spots, the outer row of small posteriorly 

 decreasing rounded spots ; the extreme outer margin also lunularly bordered. Hind- 

 wing crossed by a short upper discal row of two small rounded ochreous spots, an 

 inner submarginal row of large triangular spots, and an outer row of lunate spots, 

 the extreme outer margin also broadly lunularly bordered ; the discal llacic glandular 



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